Not many buildings can compete with the skewed geometries of Frank Gehry’s sculptural architecture, but, despite its simple rectilinear form, Perkins and Will’s new Gardner Neuroscience Institute at UC Health (the clinical center affiliated with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine) manages to make its neighbor—the bulging redbrick Vontz Center for Molecular Studies (1999)—recede into the background. What’s captivating about the Institute is its tensile white scrim, a delicately crinkled surface that varies in transparency and iridescence, like a mood ring, as the sun cycles through the day.